The service cannot find the resource identified by the resource URI and selectors

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When run winrm set -? command, I can see the following example how to disable a listener:

C:\Users\Administrator>winrm set -?
Windows Remote Management Command Line Tool

winrm set RESOURCE_URI [-SWITCH:VALUE [-SWITCH:VALUE] ...]
          [@{KEY="VALUE"[;KEY="VALUE"]}]
          [-file:VALUE]

Modifies settings in RESOURCE_URI using specified switches
and input of changed values via key-value pairs or updated
object via an input file.

Example: Disable a listener on this machine:
  winrm set winrm/config/Listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTPS @{Enabled="false"}

However, when I run exactly the same command in cmd as suggested above, I've got the error:

C:\Users\Administrator>winrm set winrm/config/Listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTPS @{Enabled="false"}
WSManFault
    Message
        ProviderFault
            WSManFault
                Message = The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The service cannot find the resource identified by the resource URI and selectors.

Error number:  -2144108544 0x80338000
The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The service cannot find the resource identified by the resource URI and selectors.

And in PS I've got different error:

PS C:\Users\Administrator> winrm set winrm/config/Listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTPS @{Enabled="false"}
Error: Invalid use of command line. Type "winrm -?" for help.

The service is up and running (test-wsman in PS runs fine):

C:\Users\Administrator>winrm e winrm/config/Listener
Listener
    Address = *
    Transport = HTTP
    Port = 5985
    Hostname
    Enabled = true
    URLPrefix = wsman
    CertificateThumbprint
    ListeningOn = 10.152.26.30, 127.0.0.1, ::1,fe80::5efe:10.152.26.30%14, fe80::f9c5:141f:ff25:6253%12

What am I missing? How can I run the above example successfully?

command-line
windows-server-2012
syntax
asked on Super User Jan 7, 2018 by kenorb

1 Answer

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The command failed, because Transport is set to HTTP, not HTTPS, that's why selector Transport=HTTPS failed to find the existing resource.

So the command should be:

winrm set winrm/config/Listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTP @{Enabled="false"}

The command should be executed in a Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as it fails in PS.

answered on Super User Jan 7, 2018 by kenorb

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